Thanksgiving in Afghanistan

 

Thanksgiving in Afghanistan

Thanksgiving Meal…

Everyone is saying “Happy Thanksgiving” and smiling and acting like they are having the time of their life. Funny thing is to me this is not Thanksgiving… It is Thursday November 26^th and I am in a place where most of the population would not know what a turkey was if it bit them in the ass.

I am not being a stick in the mud I am just not in the mood for false holiday cheer, I am not with my family and I am not deer hunting with my son I am here for a Job to do it and come home I don’t need to wait in line for over an hour for a Thanksgiving meal cooked by people who don’t understand the meaning of the holiday or frankly have the love put into the cooking that those back home do.

We had a wonderful giving chance to some locals where we were able to give out several hundred pairs of shoes and lots of clothing, but they did not understand that this was a holiday they just understood that we were giving stuff away and we were giving it now.

I took a picture of my thanksgiving meal right before I choked it down and went back to work, I ate it in my room while on facebook and frankly the potatoes were instant, the meat was “Beef” and the stuffing was  salty enough to get its own oceanic name.  In the end I was full and I was back to work another Thursday drawing to a close.

So back home I say Happy Thanksgiving, I miss my family, and I will see you soon. Here it is time to get back to work. I have soldiers fighting a war, and they need my support.